chamar

• chamaar, choomar, chumar

Borrowed from Hindi चमार (camār)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃəˈmɑː/

chamar (plural chamars)

1. A member of a Tribe who works in leather and Agriculture; a tanner or leather-worker.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Sending of Dana Da’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, page 419:

     It is not strictly a native patent, though chamars of the skin and hide castes can, if irritated, despatch a Sending which sits on the breast of their enemy by night and nearly kills him.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chamar, from Latin clāmāre, present active infinitive of clamō (“cry out”). Compare Spanish llamar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈmaɾ/

chamar (first-person singular present chamo, first-person singular preterite chamei, past participle chamado)

1. to call; to refer to (by name)

   Chámome Alejandro e nacín en 1953 ― "I am called Alejandro and was born in 1953"

2. (transitive) to call, summon

   Quen chama? ― "Who's calling?"

3. (transitive with por) to call, summon
   • 2016, Malandrómeda, Chegar e encher [song]:

     Cando voltei, cheguei e enchín,

     choran os problemas e chaman por min;

     non sei moi ben se hoxe vou ser quen

     de pasar de lado como se non fora comigo

     When I came back, and pulled it off at the first attempt [veni, vidi, vici]

     the troubles cry and call me;

     I'm not sure if today I'll be capable

     of passing by as if that's not me

   Chama por ela ― "Call her"

4. to invoke

   Synonym: invocar

5. (transitive) to goad; to steer, guide (the cattle, a yoke)

   Synonym: afalar

6. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of chamar
7. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of chamar

• rechamar

• “chamar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “chamar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “chamar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chamar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chamar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese chamar (“call”), from Latin clamāre, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”). Compare Spanish llamar. Doublet of clamar, a borrowing.

• (Brazil Nordestino) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ.ˈma(h)/
• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɐˈmaɾ], [ˈt͡ʃɐˈma.ɾɨ]

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• Hyphenation: cha‧mar

chamar (first-person singular present chamo, first-person singular preterite chamei, past participle chamado)

1. (transitive) to call; to summon (to ask someone to come)

   Há uma partida amanhã, chamem seus amigos.

   There is a match tomorrow, call your friends.

   Synonyms: clamar, invocar, convocar

2. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to call (to use as the name of)

   Os botânicos chamam aquele tipo de árvore de gimnosperma.

   Botanists call that type of tree a gymnosperm.

3. (ditransitive, copulative with de for the second object) to call (to verbally ascribe someone a quality)

   chamaram-me de feio na escola.

   They called me ugly at school.

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive) to be called (to have a specific name)

   Olá, chamo-me Pedro.

   Hi, I’m called Peter.

   Synonyms: nomear, denominar, designar

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chamar.

• chamada, chamado, chamador, chamamento
• chamariz, chamarisco